Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 321

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Group of 8 photographs of Black soldiers and officers in the war era, including Tuskegee Airmen. Photographs, each about 7 x 9 inches, 4 bearing short captions on verso and 5 with inked stamps on verso as "Official Photo U.S.A.A.F. by AAF Training Command"; minor wear. No place, circa 1943-1946
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Group of Tuskegee Airmen and civilian women in a hangar, seated on benches in front of a plane. Captioned on verso "Post dance & picnic," and stamped as "Official Photo U.S.A.A.F."

Three white officers visit with three Tuskegee Airmen in front of a plane. The officers are named on verso: General Elwood Quesada, Colonel Noel F. Parrish (here "Paris"), commander of the Tuskegee Airmen; and a Major Hawkins. Stamped as "Official Photo U.S.A.A.F."

Group of five Tuskegee Airmen at leisure in a barracks.

Group of several Tuskegee airmen in an office; a 1946 calendar hangs on the wall.

Group of Black non-commissioned officers dining. One of them wears the distinctive Panther patch of a tank destroyer battalion, perhaps the 614th, 659th or 827th.

Three photographs of General Benjamin O. Davis Sr. in groups with other officers.